The Fight for Life

Pare Lorentz

Detective-like doctors combat death during childbirth amongst the slum-living urban poor, in Lorentz’ film noir inflected fiction of fact. A symphonic piece of ciné-journalism, ‘as dramatic as life itself’, with obstetricians and sanitation its heroes.

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sessions

One Screening Only
26 Oct • 15:30 / 137’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Health: a Melodrama

The Fight for Life

Pare Lorentz

The Forgotten Village

Herbert Kline, Alexander Hackenschmied